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This website is very informative and goes through everything from the crime scene to identifying the suspect.  What I thought was very informative is the identifying of the victim and how long the victim has been dead.  It goes through a time line of 0 days to 31+.  When looking at a time line for when a victim has been dead you must look at the body temperature, hardening, the eyes, skin color, pooling of the blood, the digestive system, and forensic entomology. 

Forensic entomology is the use of insects to determine the time line of death.  In this website it shows the physical appearance of a person in cooperation with insects present of the stage relative to the time of decomposition. 

When looking around this website it also shows the different stages of a case and what to do during theses stages, not just forensic entomology. The first stage is the crime scene.  It goes through discovering the scene, identifying the scene, recording the incident, to searching for the evidence.  The second stage goes through the autopsy which goes though the cause of death, time of death, manner of death, marks of violence, to storing the evidence.  The third stage is the identity of the victim.  This goes through facial reconstruction, DNA and dental matching, and blood analysis.  The fourth stage is the evidence, which is pretty much self explanatory. The next stage the suspect.  This goes through lists of suspects, psychological profiling, fingerprinting, and both spoken and written evidence.   The last stage goes through the weapons that can be used by the suspect.  

This website can be very useful in order to understand the different aspects of solving a case starting from the crime scene to the capture of the suspect.

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